What was daily life like in the 80s/90s/00s?

[blueboy25]

Yep, the last of the crime gangs of the 70's before the gig was up with better security, and the advent of CCTV.

I worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland back in the early 2000's. The tellers had a seperate stack of money (1000 quid) which had dye in it and if we got robbed they were meant to give that to the robbers and it would explode as they went past a sensor at the front door and ruin all of the notes.

We had a new teller in the branch and in her first week she accidently gave that stack of notes in a envelope to a customer and it exploded in the foyer of the branch with dye covering everything.

 

[Mofra]

I still remember those two years in 90s when sun-dried tomatoes were in absolutely everything.

Pretty sure every focaccia in the old Myer basement food court (Melbourne CBD) had them.

 

[Gough]

Same thing happened with pesto in the 80s.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Yep, the last of the crime gangs of the 70's before the gig was up with better security, and the advent of CCTV.

Closing most of the bank branches, plus the rise in use of credit and debit cards also contributed, meaning less cash around.

 

[MatthewB]

Same thing happened with pesto in the 80s.

 

[HeathySure]

We used to have to call our friends and if they weren't home then there was no way to speak to them. Best part was getting through the parents to speak to your friend, you usually got a lecture and a grilling about your life.

We played sport at lunchtime and after school for hours every single day. Walked to school if we lived within 2 kms of the school

 

[PT Bar None]

I don't remember phoning my friends too often "Those calls aren't free you know!". Instead you'd ride around until you saw a house with a heap of bikes on the front lawn. "Ah, here they are".

 

[HeathySure]

I don't remember calling my fronds too often "The calls aren't free you know!". Instead you'd ride around until you saw a house with a heap of bikes on the front lawn. "Ah, here they are".

most of mine tried to hide from me

 

[Gough]

We used to have to call our friends and if they weren't home then there was no way to speak to them. Best part was getting through the parents to speak to your friend, you usually got a lecture and a grilling about your life.

We played sport at lunchtime and after school for hours every single day. Walked to school if we lived within 2 kms of the school

I don't remember parents hanging around the gates at pick up time like they do know. Generally it was only the parents who drove their kids to school and they were in a minority, most of us rode bikes or walked.

 

[MatthewB]

I don't remember parents hanging around the gates at pick up time like they do know. Generally it was only the parents who drove their kids to school and they were in a minority, most of us rode bikes or walked.

most in primary school rode or walked to school, at my high school, majority caught the bus, dont remember that many that was picked up, but that wasnt near the bus stops

 

[Spongebob]

My experiences of the 80s seem different from most on here.

I attended university in America. I used to say I came back with a Masters, a PhD, and a wife. don’t have the wife anymore.

Living in a college town of about 150,000 people was so different from living in Perth, or teaching and living in Melbourne. Sport, food, music, U21 not allowed to drink etc

 

[Plugger35]

I don't remember parents hanging around the gates at pick up time like they do know. Generally it was only the parents who drove their kids to school and they were in a minority, most of us rode bikes or walked.

Anyone that got picked up by their parents back when I was at school got made fun of so you would actually prefer to walk, ride your bike or get a bus.

 

[brucetiki]

halls!

do they even make that anymore?

It's coming back apparently

 

[brucetiki]

Myer bourke street lifts. Operated by a life person.

Many lifts had operators back in the day.

In Adelaide, John Martin's lift operators were the doyen of lift operators - with the classic style handle the operators used to control the lift.

By the time I was old enough to remember, Harris Scarfe was the only other store to have lift operators with the manual handle lifts (though they also had a couple of automatic lifts too).

DJ's and the Myer Centre had lift operators too, but they served more as information staff.

 

[brucetiki]

I vaguely remember a department store called "venture" similar to Kmart

On SM-S908E using BigFooty.com mobile app

They were the variety store offshoot of John Martins (in fact, the Elizabeth John Martins store was split to accommodate Venture).

They went broke in the early 90's, and a lot of their stores became Harris Scarfe. Ironically, Harris Scarfe took over the John Martins in Elizabeth as well and reunited the two stores back for a few years.

 

[Gough]

Man City played in the third division.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Funny, I was just thinking of this thread this morning for some unknown reason. I was thinking about mobile phones and when they first came in and they were the size of house bricks. They were used by tradies, my BIL had one, but they had limited uses and range. Usually the contact was between two of these devices and you couldn't call anyone on them except the boss, or the base. No texting or photos. Lots of static.

The military had them, of course, and some services such as police, search and rescue, etc. Early versions were known as walkie-talkies and it struck me that that would be a good and not unreasonable name for modern mobiles - as well as being completely Aussie!

"Left me walkie-talkie at home "
"Walkie-talkie's on the charger."
"Give us yer walkie-talkie number."
"Got a selfie with Baz on me walkie-talkie!"

 

[nobbyiscool]

In these cups!

The lunch of champions.

Along with one of these...

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

This was the British in the 90s keeping their people under control.

I have a lot of nostalgia for the 80's and 90's, but boy they were horrible days for the northern part of our island.

There's a lot of things i prefer about the 80's and 90's, sport and music was better back then.

Cork was a much nicer city back in those days as well, but thank god things have drastically improved for the better in the north of Ireland since the 1998 Good Friday agreement.

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

The Smiths were the one of the few English bands that were still keeping it real and telling it like it was in the UK back in the 1980s.




They got zero coverage in Australia, didn't feature on Countdown, it was all Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and Wham, The Smiths were too hot to handle.

They are now widely regarded as one of the best and most influential bands of the 1980s.

The Smiths were a great band, but Duran Duran wrote some great tunes like Ordinary World etc.

Duran Duran could never shake off that girly boyband image they had, but if you can look past it they were actually a very good band musically, and they were doing some great stuff right into the late 90's imo.

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

I was on the train coming home from uni a bit worse for wear when the conductor came and said we'd have to walk home by the leisure centre cause there had been a bomb.

I found it difficult to walk past parked cars at night for a while.

That was just a small bomb. There were much bigger ones.

That's the reason why i could never vote for Sinn Fein. It was a war and there was wrongs committed on both sides, but there's a lot of revisionist history and romanticism about the IRA that i don't agree with.

They were terrorist scum in the same way that the UVF and UDA were. I was always more of an SDLP person when it came to north of Ireland politics.

 

[Macca180]

kids were riding bikes, kicking footies, playing cricket outside.

kids were sneaking out to hang with friends late at night.

People were not on phones the whole time.

You had to talk to people.

Slower pace.

Cricket was way more popular.

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

Was american wrestling popular in Australia in the 90's? It was huge in Ireland and the UK. The rivalry between the WWF and WCW was of Carlton v Collingwood proportions!

The WCW poached most of the WWF's biggest stars, and from the years 1996 to 1998 it was the most dominant company.

The WWF's flagship show was Monday Night Raw, and the WCW's was Monday Night Nitro, and the mid to late 90's was all about the epic Raw and Nitro wars.

After 1998 the WWF reassumed it's position as the most dominant company, and the war ended when they bought out the WCW in 2001. After that wrestling went into decline imo.

 

[Gough]

kids were riding bikes, kicking footies, playing cricket outside.

kids were sneaking out to hang with friends late at night.

People were not on phones the whole time.

You had to talk to people.

Slower pace.

Cricket was way more popular.

A humble schoolboy could afford to smoke 20 a day.

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

Another thing i miss about the 80's and 90's, is that both Carlton and Everton used to actually win stuff! Carlton will come good sooner rather than later though.

As for Everton i doubt i'll ever see them win anything again tbh. They just don't have and probably never will have the finances, to compete for the big prizes again sadly.